Here is a 5min excerpt of paper I gave to the 6th National Service User [Drug Users] Conference
Feb 14th 2013
Of the 500-strong delegation; the vast majority were people who have been or are dependent on opiates, crack, cocaine all badduns like me;-) a few of them are now paid drugs workers, but mostly[...]
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By June 4, 2013 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Blog, Outreach No Comments 
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Spain’s economy shrank for the[...]
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By May 16, 2013 Category: News, Newsletter, Outreach No Comments
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By April 30, 2013 Category: Newsletter, Outreach No Comments
Energy is not a luxury, it is a basic human need: it is required for cooking food, as well as for heating homes in a cold climate such as ours – and yet it is being put beyond the reach of increasing numbers of ordinary people in our society.
We have known for some time,[...]
By April 23, 2013 Tags: Big 6, blacklist, Climate change, EDF, energy, fuel poverty, No dash for gas, nuclear
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We were wrong in our last newsletter to dismiss Cyprus as just another bailout. This was the bailout/bail-in that revealed lawmakers’ cavalier attitude towards the law. The bailout that didn’t know whether to call itself a tool of “exceptional” circumstances or a future template, so opted for doing both. The bailout that[...]
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By April 4, 2013 Category: Newsletter, Outreach No Comments
In the next week, a few Occupy London activists will be in Tunisia to participate in the World Social Forum (WSF). We will not be representing anyone but ourselves, but will be bringing with us our experiences of Occupy and the movements and groups we have been part of.
Initiated in Puerto Allegre in Brazil[...]
By March 24, 2013 Tags: 15m, assembly, Global Square, horizontalism, occupy, skillshare, social movements, Tunisia, World Social Forum, WSF
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The current financial crises (Eurozone, US and UK public and private sector debt, banks’ insolvency) were precipitated by the sub-prime mortgage crisis of 2008 which was the culmination of a housing fuelled, economic boom in the US, UK and Europe (particularly Spain and Ireland). Rising house prices fuelled an explosion in consumer credit and private[...]
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By March 20, 2013 Category: Austerity, Banking and Money, Economics, Economics WG Blog, Finances, Housing, Land, Markets, Securities and Derivatives, News, Newsletter, Newswire, Policies, Press releases, Uncategorized, Working Groups No Comments
We can’t do everything in one budget, but we can make a start. This is a start, by scrapping the austerity agenda, and starting a programme to reinvest in people and begin to reduce the criminal inequality that successive administrations have enabled. Some of these suggestions have been made by unions, campaigners, some by us.[...]
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By March 20, 2013 Category: An Occupier's Perspective, Austerity, Economics, Economics WG Blog, Finances, Housing, Land, Markets, Securities and Derivatives, News, Newsletter, Newswire, Press releases, Working Groups No Comments
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Another two weeks,[...]
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